C.A. Earle Rinker's reminiscences of mining and assaying life in Goldfield, Nevada, in the first decade of the 1900s. He recalls two different shootings, drilling contests, water use by the local hotels and a 1907 influenza epidemic.

Men of the Rochester-Goldfield Mining Company sit in horse-drawn wagons. Rinker is seated in first wagon (see blue "x" on the image).